Saturday, November 6, 2004

Politics: bound for Canada?

Not that I have plans to move anytime soon (nor do I encourage you to do so), Canadian-Americans Dahlia and Alex Lethwick (Alex actually is just Canadian, I think) make a pretty (humorously) compelling case with their ten-item questionaire (including):

1) Do you like to shoot people? Circle one: yes / no

2) Have you recently shot someone? Circle one: yes / no

3) Do you like to smoke pot? Circle one: yes / no / only for medicinal reasons / only with John Ashcroft

4) Are you covered in vast quantities of coarse, black fur? Circle one: yes / no

5) Do you like to wear white sneakers (Canadians call these "running shoes") with jeans? Circle one: yes / no

6) Do you generally find being alive to be just fine? Circle one: yes / no

7) Are you gay, or, alternatively, do you suspect that the institution of marriage should be open to all couples who are committed to living together and/or raising children in a loving environment? Circle one: yes / no

8) Are your political views either too complicated to be expressed in two-word bumper stickers, or, alternatively, do you find that you just don't much care about your neighbors' views on guns/the unborn/or which deity is their copilot? Circle one: yes / no

9) Are you bored to death of razor-thin margins between radical ideologues in every aspect of public life? Circle one: yes / no

10) Does the idea of pluralism appeal to you? Not just in the sense that I-want-to-be-surrounded-by-lots-of-diverse-and-fascinating-
people-who-all-worship-my-Lord, but rather, in the sense, that a country is a richer place for competing values, religions and cultures?
Circle one: yes / no

Check out the article for the 'key.'

For those of you stupid enough to really consider moving to a place that's colder than Ann Arbor, NYC, Boston, or Seattle, here's your ten reasons NOT to move to Canada. These aren't funny though. Dammit. Why can't people just always be funny? Liberals won't listen to you if you're not funny. Even Michael Moore, as angry as he is, is at least funny often enough to keep ADHD liberals watching. That's why we don't go to church much. Church isn't funny!

Maybe our entire party just needs Ritalin?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

"Barry Goldwater suffered a resounding defeat when he ran for president against Lyndon Johnson in 1964, but his campaign spawned a conservative movement that eventually gained control of the Republican Party and elected Ronald Reagan in 1980. Progressives should see the excitement surrounding Dean, KUCINICH, MOSELEY BRAUN, and SHARPTON during the primary season as the foundation for a similar takeover of the Democratic Party."

i don't know what you mean by not funny; this part was hilarious!

mikey

Garrett said...

See, I wasn't sure whether to laugh or to cry on that one.